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A YEAR AMONG THE BEES. 
wood, each 12x2x% fastened togetheratone end by a common 
2-inch hinge. When the pieces of tin are put in this, a 
spring clamp is slipped over the end without the hinge. 
These T tins, or supporters, must be made of good tin. Mine 
are made of IX tin. I think it might be an improvement if 
they were made of one instead of two pieces, but my tinner 
tells me this cannot be done with ordinary machinery. Now 
that the T super is complete, nothing remains but to place 
the T tins inside the super, on the sheet-iron rests, and fill 
up with sections. 
SECTIONS FOE HONEY. 
All the sections I ever used were 4^x434, dovetailed, so I 
have bad no experience with any other. As to thickness or 
width, I have used mostly what are called pound or 2-inch 
sections ; although they are in reality 1 15-1(1. I have also 
used by the thousand those measuring 7 to the foot or 1 5-7 
inches, as well as 8 to the foot, or inches. 1 tried a couple 
of hundred 9 to the foot, and 10 to the foot. I think it not likely 
that I shall ever meddle again with anything less than \% 
inches wide. One advantage of the T-super, as well as the 
Heddon super, is that different sections as to width can be 
used in the same super without change, so that it costs but 
little to make the experiment. If I used no separators I 
certainly think I should use the lj^-inch sections. With 
separators I hardly know whether to prefer 6 or 7 to the foot. 
As already intimated, I cannot dispense with separators ; 
yet I have used a mixed arrangement with some degree of 
satisfaction. The plan is to use both 6’s and 8’s in the same 
row. (By 6’s and 8’s, I mean those that measure 6 and 8 to 
the foot— in other words, 1 15-16 and inches wide.) First, 
two 6’s, then four 8’s, then one six. Separators are placed 
between the two 6’s, also between the 6’s and the 8’s. No 
separators are put between the 8’s, and not being at the out- 
side they are generally built in pretty good shape, for it is 
the outside ones that make the most trouble without separa- 
tors. Even with separators 1 have had 6’s at the outside 
